Tag: love
No More Valentine’s Day Rules: Celebrate However You Want!
When it comes to Valentine’s Day, we all sit somewhere on the spectrum between full-on romantic holiday bliss and boycotting it completely. I think...
Love is in {BLOOM} – A Paper Flower Tutorial
I love to decorate for holidays. However, I’m a total procrastinator. I don’t get decorations up until right before the holiday, and then they...
It’s the Little Things: Finding Love in the Beautiful Minutiae
It's the little things.
Ten tiny baby toes, soft and pudgy, toenails so small they might as well be glitter.
White onesies, hanging from the clothesline...
The Deepest Kind of Gratitude: A Letter to Our Child’s Birth...
November: the beautiful month full of life’s little pleasures. You can watch squirrels so diligently gather and hide acorns for the winter, see wild...
Bonded For Life {A Dad’s Perspective}
Developing a special bond with a child has always been an easy thing for me to do, being that I am an elementary physical...
I’m Never Scrapbooking Again: My Method for Remembering Milestones
A friend who is a few years ahead of me as a mom told me, “Write everything down now. My kids ask me all...
To My Husband: I Notice
After two years of being part of the Iowa City Moms Blog, this will be my last post. It has been a fun (and...
Not-So-Random Acts of Kindness
I've been reading a lot of heart-warming stories on the internet lately, about these amazing people who anonymously pay off someone's student loans, or...
Top 5 Reasons Moms Love Facebook
If you are reading this post today, then you are most likely a social-media-user. Maybe you have the self-control to turn it off/log off/put...
Four Creative Ways to Redefine “Date Night”
In the BC {Before Children} era, the hubs and I would spend many Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays alone together. We would watch movies, go...